Introduction : Russia as an imaginary country -- Conspiracy and paranoia -- Ruining Russia : conspiracy, apocalypse and melodrama -- Lost horizon : Russophobia, sovereignty and the politics of identity -- One hundred years of Sodom : dystopian liberalism and the fear of a queer planet -- The talking dead : articulating the zombie subject under Putin -- Words of warcraft : manufacturing dissent in Russia and Ukraine -- Conclusion : making Russia great again
Summary
"A study of paranoid, conspiratorial, and extremist trends in Russia's media, film, and fiction since the collapse of the Soviet Union"-- Provided by publisher
